It's difficult to achieve any higher status than The Beatles achieved at their peak, right? Like there are no more rungs to climb right just this nowhere to go. Unfortunately, as you point out, or perhaps fortunately, we quickly acclimatize to whatever level of status we experience. And what that means is that those people at the very top, like, I'm a midlist author, I'm drowning in authors who are more successful than me. Well, you're very accomplished. Yeah. But because you do, you spend,. quite a, quite a nice thing to realize is that becauseYou were just talking about Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. It was interesting
“Life is a game. There’s no way to understand the human world without first understanding this. Everyone alive is playing a game whose hidden rules are built into us and that silently directs our thoughts, beliefs and actions. This game is inside us. It is us. We can’t help but play.”
So begins “The Status Game,” a new book by acclaimed writer Will Storr.
He continues: “We play for status, if only subtly, with every social interaction, every contribution we make to work, love or family life and every internet post. We play with how we dress, how we speak and what we believe. … Life is not a journey towards a perfect destination. It’s a game that never ends. And it’s the very worst of us.”
Does it have to be?
We may not be able to quit the status game, but Will says we can learn to play it better. In this episode, he explains how.
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